Laguna Lo Méndez (locality LM, beds with concretions) (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Chile (36.8° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° S, 61.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eubaculites carinatus ammonoid zone, Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Beds with calcareous sandstone concretions, roughly equivalent to Kitchinites darwini subzone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: CPUC (Colección Paleontológica de la Universidad de Concepción)

Primary reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2010. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 257:181-236 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165510: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Kitchinites darwini Steinmann 1895 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite